If you know your U.S. history, there have been several attempts to adopt the metric system, all to no avail. It's the universal standard for most of the world and way more intuitive, yet the chances ...

Measuring performance is a key to evaluating how well employees are doing their work and companies are meeting their targets. A good performance metric gives hard data and yields results that measure ...

Investors favor companies that “skimp” on R&D, Ashley Vance recently reported in BloombergBusinessweek. You shouldn’t be shocked. Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has warned ...

For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...

A national nonprofit that runs an after-school program in seven U.S. cities is shaking things up in the field through its unique youth-development model. The All Stars Project (ASP) is also working to ...

This option is useful for those who may travel to another country and need to measure something such as clothing in a department store. For more help getting the most out of your Apple devices, check ...